Re: My life, this week!

["Mark McCall" <mark@xxxxxxx>]

Sing it together...

Hurrah for "L" !!

:-)

Well done!

M.


----- Original Message -----
From: <Mark_Harrison_UK@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 11:44 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] My life, this week!


> Hi all,
>
> Well, the observant among you may have noticed that I'm on a
> different email address all of a sudden.
>
> Here's why, and why I owe this list a big "thank you"...
>
>
> LAST WEEK:
>
> Mary and I went on holiday last week. Great break.
>
> MONDAY:
>
> When I got back to work, I discovered that, while I was away, the
> backers had indicated that second round funding would not be found
> soon enough, and that the company would have to get rid of most of
> its staff.
>
> As such, I discovered that I was going to be out of a job, effective
> the last working day before Christmas. A letter had been sent to me,
> but, owing to a secretary that left a while back, my change of
> address had never been filed, so the letter had been sent to my old
> house.
>
> Phoned friends, agents, family, previous colleages to explain and get
> them copies of my CV to hawk around.
>
> TUESDAY:
>
> Went for an interview with the CTO of ( - the dot com side of a FTSE
> 1000 - ) arranged through a contact of a previous boss. One of the
> questions he asked was "how is your UNIX".
>
> I said "I'm not really technical, but I've been using it on and
off
> since '89"
>
> He said "What do you mean by non-technical".
>
> I said, well, I recently installed Linux on one of my home PCs, and
> installed a baby-firewall so that all the PCs on my home LAN could
> access the Internet through a single connection.
>
> He said "and that's non-technical?"
>
> WEDNESDAY:
>
> Job offer in writing (3 month contract, starting monday).
>
>
>
>
> I guess that, if I hadn't been on the list, I'd never have bothered
> to play with Linux for Internet Connection Sharing, so wouldn't have
> had that story available. So well done the group!
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